We all end up in mid-career and face decisions that will challenge each of us. Earlier, we wrote about the importance of mid-career professionals engaging coaches and mentors. (after A. Gawande, New Yorker magazine) Mid career knowledge workers are urged to grow in their self awareness and assess others needs in different circumstances. To this end, two recent books shine a revealing illuminating light and apply a laser focus on things to repair.

Marchall Goldsmith’s What got you here, won’t get you there illustrates 20 things to avoid in a series of cartoons to bringthings to light without mentioning any names. These thingsare destructive behaviors that demotivate and lose yourcredibility.

- what is important for you in your job? - what are your goals and how do you set them? - dealing with questions that may off set us or maycome from a different direction… titles, managinggroups to being a staffer, flatter organizations, - visionary vs implementer roles.

This is a worthwhile contribution to a long list andit remains relevant 8 years after publication.